Each entry in the long-running 33 1/3 series finds a writer delving deep into a notable album, teasing out fresh details from beloved classics or making a case for the unexpected along the way. With more than 100 titles to its name at this point, Stephen M. Deusner highlights the collection’s finest moments.

The former Oasis guitarist and songwriter is famous for wittily ridiculing his rock-star peers, but here he talks to us about the stuff he's loved across his life, including Sex Pistols and Arctic Monkeys.

Between the NME, the rest of the British music press, daily newspapers, and radio certainly-- both commercial radio and public-- there may be more consensus among the traditional tastemakers in British pop than any other time in rock history. How did this happen and what does it mean for UK rock?